Data Compliance Solutions

Regulatory mandates are nothing new, but in most organizations, the pressure, cost, and effort required to sustain data compliance are reaching unprecedented levels.

Organizations too often embark on compliance projects that patch holes in the system, only to have to restart the process all over when the next audit or mandate comes along. A new approach is needed in order to cost-efficiently and effectively meet compliance obligations.

Find your path to data compliance

Whether you're facing an audit or a new data security regulation, your organization can leverage Gemalto's suite of SafeNet Identity and Data Protection solutions to become compliant today and stay compliant in the future.

GLBA Compliance: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the U.S. Financial Modernization Act, regulates the protection
of consumer personal information held by financial institutions. SafeNet solutions help organizations ensure the security and confidentiality of customer records.

NCUA Compliance: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) mandates that credit unions must design and implement an information
security program to control identified risks. With SafeNet solutions, credit unions can control access to and encryption of member information as required by the NCUA.

NYDFS Compliance: NY Cybersecurity Regulation (NYDFS) maddresses a broad array of topics from policy and governance issues to security methods. Such a wide breadth means that there is no single solution to this compliance challenge. However, deploying multi-factor authentication, encryption and key management can go a long way to making your organization compliant.

[SafeNet PIN Delivery] is a perfect example of how we strive to make banking secure and convenient for our customers. We are constantly seeking to adapt our products and services such that they fit in with their modern lifestyles.

- -Ken Woghiren, Head of Architecture and Innovation for Citibank UK Consumer

With the integrated solution from EMIS and SafeNet, we can serve our customers more quickly and effectively, and better safeguard their privacy. Plus, with easier, more convenient access to records and systems, we can be faster and more efficient. Not only has this resulted in direct cost savings of over $50,000 a year, it enabled us to expand our practice from four to eight doctors, without an increase in administrative staff.

eIDAS Regulation: A very important part of the European Regulation for the electronic identification
and trust services for electronic transactions (eIDAS) is to regulate electronic signature and ensure safe transactions online. By providing qualified electronic signature, Trust Service Providers allow both signatory and recipient a higher level
of convenience and security.

NESA's UAE IAS Regulation: To protect the UAE’s critical data information infrastructure and improve national cyber security, the National Electronic
Security Authority (NESA), has produced the UAE Information Assurance Standards (UAE IAS), which is a set of standards and guidelines for government entities in critical sectors. Compliance with these standards is mandatory for all government
organizations, semi-government organizations and business organizations that are identified as critical infrastructure to UAE.

State Breach Notification Laws: Modeled after California's S.B. 1386, many U.S. state laws mandate individuals be notified
when their unencrypted personal information was put at risk by a data breach. With SafeNet encryption solutions, organizations can avoid costly penalties and the loss of customer trust that follow a breach.

The Australian Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017:
This update to the 1988 Privacy Act mandates that organizations notify individuals when their unencrypted personal information is at risk from a data breach. SafeNet encryption and key management solutions help organizations avoid costly penalties and lost customer trust in the aftermath of a data breach.

In developing the Solve DataShield offering, it was vital that we effectively comply with all the relevant PCI P2PE standards, including robust key management policies. Gemalto SafeNet Luna EFT HSMs delivered all the security capabilities that were required, while providing a platform that we could deploy quickly and manage efficiently.

- Nick Stacey, Dir. of Business & Market Operations at The Logic Group

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A Better Approach to Data Compliance

The number of relevant mandates has increased over the past few years, and the guidelines, rules, and interpretations of each regulation continue to evolve, as well as the infrastructures and assets that need to be protected—and the risks they're exposed to.

Gemalto believes that implementing an infrastructure to centrally support, manage, and enforce policy is the most effective approach for passing audits, complying with regulations, and meeting business goals.

We can help you build a Compliance Infrastructure with the following components to eliminate data security creep and silos.

Establishing a central point of control and visibility for managing encryption technologies, keys, policies, logging and audits, access controls are critical to the ability to "prove" control of your data. This concept is also essential to enforcing separation of duties. Organizations gain central, efficient enforcement of security controls.

Making sure only the right people can access private information in today's high risk environments is a critical need if organizations are going to meet their customer and partner expectations. Making sure that administrators can manage data without altering the data, for instance, is a vital requirement for addressing a range of regulations. Layering access control with both
strong, multi-factor authentication solutions and
hardware security modules (HSMs) ensures only authorized individuals can access regulated information.

To be effective, the Compliance Infrastructure must deliver capabilities for centrally, comprehensively, and efficiently tracking the activities relating to regulated data. For example, authentication management platforms should enable organizations to centrally manage authentication devices and policies across an enterprise.

This management platform must also provide a centralized, efficient way to track and report on authentication-related activities. In addition, encryption appliances should maintain an extensive set of log files that can be used to track administrator and user activities.

Your information security compliance policy must include the definition of assets, entities, and access modes and the relationships between them – in a way that makes sense to both the administrator for setup and management, and lower-level key management components for enforcement. The Compliance Infrastructure makes it easy to apply a policy once and have it implemented—and enforced—across the enterprise.

A critical requirement for many compliance mandates and security best practices is centralized, efficient, and secure management of cryptographic keys and policies, across the key management lifecycle and throughout the enterprise. Some challenges include restricting access to the fewest number of administrators, regular key rotation, separation of duties, and more.

Securing cryptographic keys provides reliable protection for applications, transactions and information assets. With keys securely stored in hardware, you can ensure both high performance and the highest security available.

With robust hardware security modules, encryption appliances, and key management solutions, organizations can maximize the security of encryption keys and policies, adding a critical line of defense for confidential information. This approach is also the easiest way for organizations to integrate application security in order to achieve regulatory compliance.

Many regulations, including
PCI DSS, mandate that sensitive data be adequately protected. Safeguarding regulated data in applications, databases, mainframes, storage systems, laptops, and other areas is a critical requirement for security and compliance. With encryption employed, even if an organization's initial defenses are subverted, organizations can still guard these critical repositories against theft and manipulation. This will not just meet the demands of regulation, but will also protect your business interests.

Organizations can leverage encryption solutions that provide granular control over confidential information. Encryption can give security teams an essential means to not only guard against unauthorized access to sensitive records, but to provide the visibility needed to control and track who has accessed or modified sensitive information.